severity Conversion Character

Translates error levels to Common Base Event (CBE) and Web Services Distributed Management Event Format (WEF) severity codes.

Syntax

severity{key}

Required Arguments

key can be one of the following:

CBE
reports a CBE severity code. The following table correlates levels with CBE severity codes:
Logging Facility Level
CBE Severity Code
FATAL
60
ERROR
50
WARN
30
INFO
10
DEBUG
5
TRACE
0
WEF
reports a WEF severity code. The following table correlates levels with WEF severity codes:
Logging Facility Level
WEF Severity Code
FATAL
6
ERROR
4
WARN
2
INFO
1
DEBUG
0
TRACE
0
WEF has two additional codes that do not correlate to the logging facility levels:
  • 5 is a critical condition.
  • 3 is a minor problem of relatively low severity.